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20 Facts about Swift programming language
Swift is a programming language developed by Apple in secrecy for four years and released on June 2, 2014, combining the best features of C and Objective-C. It supports modern programming features like closures, generics, and option types while emphasizing safety and type safety. Swift 2.0 was introduced at WWDC 2015, adding built-in API availability checks and earning accolades for its open-source announcement.
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20 Facts about Swift programming language
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- 2. Developed for 4years in secrecy, nobody knew about it outside of Apple, which is impressive #1
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- 4. It can beused for products with iOS7 and OSX 10.9 and higher. #3
- 5. It supports manymodern programming languages like Closures with Function Pointers, Generics as well as functional programming patterns. #4
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- 8. Created by ChrisLattner, the same person who wrote llvm #7
- 9. First appeared inJune 2, 2014 #8 2014
- 10. Swift 2 finallycomes with built-in support for checking API availability #9
- 11. Development began in2010 #10
- 12. It supports threeaccess control levels for symbols: public, internal, and private. #11
- 13. An important newfeature in Swift is option types #12
- 14. Swift 2.0 wasintroduced at WWDC 2015 #13
- 15. Safety is acore value idea in Swift. #14
- 16. Apple wants yourcode to look beautiful and natural. #15
- 17. Enums are oneof the best features #16 ENUM
- 18. Statements do notneed to end with a semicolon like from Objective-C #17 ;
- 19. The two biggestapplauses this year were when Apple announced UI testing support in Xcode 7 and Swift goes Open Source #18
- 20. Apple has combinedboth println() and print() functions into one #19
- 21. Swift is awesome:) #20
- 22. Excited? DoSelect now supportsSwift. Read more here: http://blog.doselect.com/post/134983106223/swift-has-landed Facts source: cribb.co